After my daddy retired I used to take him on trips with me. He operated equipment all his life. Most of the equipment he operated was older equipment. When we would come across a highway or any big civil construction job he asked me to pull up out the way and watch the machines work. One day in Mississippi the had some brand new cat road graders working. One of the construction guys came by and ask if we enjoyed watching. After talking to daddy he offered daddy to come drive one of the new graders. Once daddy got on it he didn’t want to get off. The guy from the construction company sat down with my and said your dad really knows how to operate that machine. His grader was made in the 60s with no hydraulics and no AC . After he finally got down he said how much he enjoyed that experience driving a new machine. He talked about that experience for the rest of his life. I am so glad he got to operate that machine. He passed in 2011 and I put a model of the machine he drowse in his casket.. R.I.P. Pops
That was a beautiful story that shows how deep love of different types can really be! The love your daddy had of heavy equipment and your love for your father! Two very different types of love, but both very deeply wonderful and beautiful. I can just picture your daddy as he operated that new Grader and probably did things with it just out of hand that other, younger operators were just jaw dropped openly impressed with your daddy's skill at operating that machine! You both have my respect as do the people who allowed your daddy to climb in a operate the grader also! That was a heartful and beautiful story and I thank you for sharing it with us all. R.I.P. Daddy, may you be operating equipment wherever you might be now!! And also, thank you for the work you've done to make life better for all of us!! When I think of all of the roads, bridges, buildings and other things he was part of making possible for all of us, that and the equipment he worked with, I'm really impressed and amazed with him!
Great video. Thank you. It not only shows that majestic machine working, and working well, it shows, in the panorama, the logistics and order of the process of uncovering the coal seam, history and future. Imagine the operator's job; he sits 2 or 3 stories off the ground the machine sits on, and then is possibly 200 more feet above the floor of the cut, looking into it and digging it. I wanted to add that this is a great looking and surely well cared for machine. It is large, also, considering that it makes the fairly large loader, parked next to it, look like a toy.
The Dragline being showen in the Video is a Marion 8750 Walking Dragline and is electric Powered from a Substation and can only be operated from the left side of the Dragline and carry up to a bucket size of 169 Cubic yards and with a Boom size of 435 Ft long and weighing in at 8,350 Ton and was made Built and Designed to remove overburden from a Coal pit after being dinamighted so the Coal Vain can be Mined and taken to a Coal tipple preperation plant and either be Trucked out and or be shipped out on Rail
This is actually quite beautiful to watch. I'm a total tractor guy, have been since I was a kid. I might not know all the specs and fancy lingo, but I do know when I see something majestic. The power, the efficiency, the purpose driven life of a machine. Thank you so much for this video. This made me feel much smaller, not less important, just in awe like I was a kid again. Sometimes that's all we need. 🤗
My father has been a drag line operator for 35 years in Montana. I don't think people realize just how big these machine are when you are next to them.
Here in New Zealand we don't have draglines anywhere near that big, and i've never operated one. But I've always been fascinated by them, and there's just something so majestic about how they move.
Fantastic video. Can't beat the Mavic pro. I have always been fascinated by these monster mining marvels, and this video captures the magic perfectly! Well done!
This brings tears to my eyes because the dragline looks almost like Big Muskie the one that was cut up back in 1999 glad to see it's sort of little brother is still going strong has anyone asked for this thing to be saved by chance when it's retired? Because I hope it gets preserved I really hope it is preserved
Good Dragline Video, Music reminds me of some Sling Blade scenes... 😜👍😎 I have run Draglines in the Rock Quarries in Florida, also in the Coal Stripmines in Indiana..!!
As a primary school kid I got to visit the Morwell Open Cut, Latrobe Valley, Victoria, Australia, in 1976 as my Dad was the Civil Engineer in Charge of Overburden. The Victorian mines extract Brown Coal or Lignite using huge Bucket Wheel excavators to remove the overburden and other units excavate the coal which is then transported to the Power Station Surge Bin and then the Drying Plant via conveyor belts. So some things were familiar and other things completely different in this video.
Interesting video as, I was able to see just what the dragline was working at and where it was dumping. Good work with the drone, nice and steady with gradual transitions.
Wow very good nice long drone video, but what makes it so relaxing to watch that music, man who is that ? That is awesome driving music. Please tell me who that is ?
Reminds me of Corby in the UK we had 5 of these monster machines working for iron ore up until 1980, one was an American Buycrus Erie 1150B from the States and 3 Ransome Rapier W1400`s and one W1800.
There was a Ransomes 1800 working in glyneath,S Wales, for Wimpey mining,for many years, it was the biggest in the world in the 60,s so they say, I watched it work a few times in the late 80,s, then it was stripped down,and shipped out to Canada I heard, loved big stuff all my life.
man and machines like this made this country strong, and now people complain about the environment, or "not in my backyard attitude", everything that we use comes from the earth you need coal to make steel, you need steel to build a country and the earth has been through worse things than man has ever created---end rant.
It’s still there working, i found it in google earth, it’s across and down the way from where it is in this vid. Also found a blue and white dragline south west of Waco
Not necessarily just for four feet. Lignite formations along this play, which runs southeast toward Bastrop can be upwards of eight feet thick in some places. There are also locations with more than one level of the fuel in which the total depth of the combined deposits is greater than twelve feet.
Lee Jamison ok maybe , by the way the dragline is a nice machine but when it move soft dirt like that it should be able to use a lot larger bucket for efficiency??
@@patrickpat8878 around 1992 I got a tour of Illinois coal mine. Sadly no machines were running that day. The mechanics were there and they literally parked their pickup under a shovel with a 110 yard bucket. Pit also had a 165 yd shovel.
Can now see the smaller trucks,down at the coal seam,missed them first time, this coal is more like soil I think, they have in Germany. This is real strip mining..
I asked this question and never get a good answer. I know it digs and swings the overburden but at the end where does it go to do the next pass because there's a big old hole next to it. The silver spade takes the material and tosses it over to the other side no brainer. Would be nice to have a drawing of how they start out and go through the process of moving over. That's a lot of material to move over and over again.
memyselfand ifarmer Hello.....so the machine is dumping the over burden where it will be eventually leveled out as that area is already been mined. When the drag line gets to the end of the row it will go over to the other side and begin to dig up for one pass and cast the over burden across the just completed side , then it comes back around and cleans up, so that the coal can be extracted......right now it’s on the clean up phase
Great video thanks. I wonder if it would use less energy to make a complete 360 rotation instead of 180 and then swing back in opposite direction. Dump bucket while moving too.
Why is the dragline in the middle of the trench ? Don't they normally start at one end and work their way to the other end, casting the overburden to the side ? This one seems to be in the middle and both ends of the trench have already been dug. He must have dug the trench then walked all the way back to the middle for some reason. Great video though and unlike most youtube vids, I love the music on this one, the action and music go very well together, thanks.
Easy to see why coal is on borrowed time . Hugely expensive to extract using huge amounts of energy just to dig it up . Having said that here I am watching a dragline. Great vid btw .
Вот откуда берутся пустыни... Рядом лес редкий природа скоро и это раскопают и будет ещё одна пустыня. Что останется нашим детям, внукам?? Пустыни много пустыни оставим потомкам.... Миром правит бизнес, всё ради прибыли 💪😬
wow, how exciting. aerial views and crap music. would it not be better to explain, oh, i don't know, maybe the type of equipment, its history, the mine itself, on both sides of hwy 7, how long its been going on, the forecasted end date, the benefits having the mine in the community and how its helped them small podunk towns that are nothing more than a stop sign on the hwy?
Lignite is low grade coal. At least film a bituminous coal mine. It would be best if we saw a damn anthracite mine but will settle for bituminous coal.
Chances of getting this job that pays around 60K/year..............................slim to none. Chances of having a successful youtube channel about draglines that pays around 100K/year..............A lot better. Cool video, keep up the good work. **TRUMP~2020~!!!!!!!**
Thanks for all the love! Here’s some closer shots: ua-cam.com/video/EZm_ZFGu5QU/v-deo.html
do yall sell the coal for home heating?
I'm forever impressed with the engineering
After my daddy retired I used to take him on trips with me. He operated equipment all his life. Most of the equipment he operated was older equipment. When we would come across a highway or any big civil construction job he asked me to pull up out the way and watch the machines work. One day in Mississippi the had some brand new cat road graders working. One of the construction guys came by and ask if we enjoyed watching. After talking to daddy he offered daddy to come drive one of the new graders. Once daddy got on it he didn’t want to get off. The guy from the construction company sat down with my and said your dad really knows how to operate that machine. His grader was made in the 60s with no hydraulics and no AC . After he finally got down he said how much he enjoyed that experience driving a new machine. He talked about that experience for the rest of his life. I am so glad he got to operate that machine. He passed in 2011 and I put a model of the machine he drowse in his casket.. R.I.P. Pops
That was a beautiful story that shows how deep love of different types can really be! The love your daddy had of heavy equipment and your love for your father! Two very different types of love, but both very deeply wonderful and beautiful. I can just picture your daddy as he operated that new Grader and probably did things with it just out of hand that other, younger operators were just jaw dropped openly impressed with your daddy's skill at operating that machine! You both have my respect as do the people who allowed your daddy to climb in a operate the grader also! That was a heartful and beautiful story and I thank you for sharing it with us all. R.I.P. Daddy, may you be operating equipment wherever you might be now!! And also, thank you for the work you've done to make life better for all of us!! When I think of all of the roads, bridges, buildings and other things he was part of making possible for all of us, that and the equipment he worked with, I'm really impressed and amazed with him!
Lovely story, glad your dad got to use a new one...ones.
I understand and can thank my grandfather I called Pops for getting me into operating. Miss that man every day.
Fucking great wee story mate 👍🏻
*I work on those machines as a CAT mechanic. I will think about your pops everytime I work on one from now on. Bless your souls.*
You watch one recommended dragline video and suddenly that’s all UA-cam thinks you like!
This may be one of the best dragline observation videos ever made. It shows the majestic power and grace of these behemoths ... BRAVO!
Thank you Jack.
And she's still mining strong today. This is where I'm employed.
machinery built on a geological scale, even looks like it's moving slow motion. unbelievable. thanks for capturing this.
Great video. Thank you. It not only shows that majestic machine working, and working well, it shows, in the panorama, the logistics and order of the process of uncovering the coal seam, history and future. Imagine the operator's job; he sits 2 or 3 stories off the ground the machine sits on, and then is possibly 200 more feet above the floor of the cut, looking into it and digging it. I wanted to add that this is a great looking and surely well cared for machine. It is large, also, considering that it makes the fairly large loader, parked next to it, look like a toy.
This is by far the best dragline video I've seen, well done whoever made this,
The Dragline being showen in the Video is a Marion 8750 Walking Dragline and is electric Powered from a Substation and can only be operated from the left side of the Dragline and carry up to a bucket size of 169 Cubic yards and with a Boom size of 435 Ft long and weighing in at 8,350 Ton and was made Built and Designed to remove overburden from a Coal pit after being dinamighted so the Coal Vain can be Mined and taken to a Coal tipple preperation plant and either be Trucked out and or be shipped out on Rail
Thanks for the info!!!!!
So. . .a 65% Big Muskie? 😁
She's a real looker with that fancy paint job!
This is actually quite beautiful to watch. I'm a total tractor guy, have been since I was a kid. I might not know all the specs and fancy lingo, but I do know when I see something majestic. The power, the efficiency, the purpose driven life of a machine. Thank you so much for this video. This made me feel much smaller, not less important, just in awe like I was a kid again. Sometimes that's all we need. 🤗
My father has been a drag line operator for 35 years in Montana. I don't think people realize just how big these machine are when you are next to them.
Superb video- entrancing. Thank you for the incredible images and audio track!
Here in New Zealand we don't have draglines anywhere near that big, and i've never operated one. But I've always been fascinated by them, and there's just something so majestic about how they move.
Glad Y'all didn't make the video any longer, lol. Loved It! Been operating cranes for 40 years and this looks like the best of that world!
Damn, those 992s look like toys. I worked at Martin Lake for a few months and drove by these monsters every day. Nice video.
Fantastic video. Can't beat the Mavic pro. I have always been fascinated by these monster mining marvels, and this video captures the magic perfectly! Well done!
I remember watching them build this along side the road and I believe they have two of them.
My son works for luminance as the engineer over maintenance here in losses very proud of him
This brings tears to my eyes because the dragline looks almost like Big Muskie the one that was cut up back in 1999 glad to see it's sort of little brother is still going strong has anyone asked for this thing to be saved by chance when it's retired? Because I hope it gets preserved I really hope it is preserved
Thanks for the funeral music
Excelent video. The best seen to allow a good understanding on how a walking dragline works.
Good Dragline Video, Music reminds me of some Sling Blade scenes... 😜👍😎
I have run Draglines in the Rock Quarries in Florida, also in the Coal Stripmines in Indiana..!!
Marion -great machine. I was lucky enough to become friends with a guy that wired these monsters.
Technology that changes the landscape of the planet
See this dragline everyday
As a primary school kid I got to visit the Morwell Open Cut, Latrobe Valley, Victoria, Australia, in 1976 as my Dad was the Civil Engineer in Charge of Overburden. The Victorian mines extract Brown Coal or Lignite using huge Bucket Wheel excavators to remove the overburden and other units excavate the coal which is then transported to the Power Station Surge Bin and then the Drying Plant via conveyor belts. So some things were familiar and other things completely different in this video.
Interesting video as, I was able to see just what the dragline was working at and where it was dumping. Good work with the drone, nice and steady with gradual transitions.
Great footage! I worked at luminants Tatum mine for a while. Kinda fell in love with heavy equipment there!
Thanks Lee. Just added another video with closer shots.
ua-cam.com/video/EZm_ZFGu5QU/v-deo.html
Lee, I'd love to talk to you. I'm writing a book about Hendricks Lake near Tatum. gary.pinkerton@outlook.com.
Wow very good nice long drone video, but what makes it so relaxing to watch that music, man who is that ?
That is awesome driving music.
Please tell me who that is ?
Reminds me of Corby in the UK we had 5 of these monster machines working for iron ore up until 1980, one was an American Buycrus Erie 1150B from the States and 3 Ransome Rapier W1400`s and one W1800.
There was a Ransomes 1800 working in glyneath,S Wales, for Wimpey mining,for many years, it was the biggest in the world in the 60,s so they say, I watched it work a few times in the late 80,s, then it was stripped down,and shipped out to Canada I heard, loved big stuff all my life.
Very cool. I have been on this dragline before!
I'm a moulder by trade I made the buckets and crawler shoes for many machines very rewarding, buckets made in parts then welded together.
Nice footage!
Very nice video and music. Calming.
man and machines like this made this country strong, and now people complain about the environment, or "not in my backyard attitude", everything that we use comes from the earth you need coal to make steel, you need steel to build a country and the earth has been through worse things than man has ever created---end rant.
My first real job, Marion Power Shovel, a division of Dresser Industries, 1981. Marion, Ohio.
From o e ole arion guy to another, good place to work wasn't it. In 1981 I was erecting an 8200 in South Africa.
Wow.😍💙👍
This is my ASMR.
Qui Super Maquina......e que Eficiencia !......Trabalho de Gigantes......
It’s still there working, i found it in google earth, it’s across and down the way from where it is in this vid.
Also found a blue and white dragline south west of Waco
Beautiful 👍
Very nice mine. Good operation. It seems they did not leave great mined areas without reclamation. They made it as soon as it was possible
That looks utterly ridiculous😒lol×2 TY for that.
I'd never thought of that before. The dragline actually just removes the overburden, then the smaller equipment scrapes up the lignite.
Yep all this for 4 feets thick of material... what a waist of time and energy....
Not necessarily just for four feet. Lignite formations along this play, which runs southeast toward Bastrop can be upwards of eight feet thick in some places. There are also locations with more than one level of the fuel in which the total depth of the combined deposits is greater than twelve feet.
Lee Jamison ok maybe , by the way the dragline is a nice machine but when it move soft dirt like that it should be able to use a lot larger bucket for efficiency??
patrick pat look at the size of the bucket now, there is a wheel loader sitting behind the dragline, that by comparison could drive into that bucket
@@patrickpat8878 around 1992 I got a tour of Illinois coal mine. Sadly no machines were running that day. The mechanics were there and they literally parked their pickup under a shovel with a 110 yard bucket. Pit also had a 165 yd shovel.
я работаю на таком драглайне в Украине. Ваш экскаватор в очень хорошем состоянии. Успехов вам!
Таких драглайнов в Усраине нет.Там тольно ЭШ.Я на эш 20.90. работаю 6й год...
Can now see the smaller trucks,down at the coal seam,missed them first time, this coal is more like soil I think, they have in Germany. This is real strip mining..
25 sene Draglin oparatörü olarak Marion ve Page P.H. makinalarını kullandım,harika makinalardır.
WOW you can see how deep the hole is
The operator must get extremely lonely confined to that operator's compartment all day.
Hubiera sobrevolado un poco más cerca para ver visto tremendo gigante trabajar más de cerca.
I asked this question and never get a good answer.
I know it digs and swings the overburden but at the end where does it go to do the next pass because there's a big old hole next to it. The silver spade takes the material and tosses it over to the other side no brainer.
Would be nice to have a drawing of how they start out and go through the process of moving over. That's a lot of material to move over and over again.
memyselfand ifarmer Hello.....so the machine is dumping the over burden where it will be eventually leveled out as that area is already been mined.
When the drag line gets to the end of the row it will go over to the other side and begin to dig up for one pass and cast the over burden across the just completed side , then it comes back around and cleans up, so that the coal can be extracted......right now it’s on the clean up phase
the new paint job looks great but need some decals
Great footage of dragline, can't see any other machines in the pit,
Looks like a Marion 8750. Spotted it on Google maps southeast of Waco: Limestone County, Texas 31.293027, -96.451443
Here in kosse
Peaceful !
Do they use the ass end of that thing as an apartment? How much is the rent?
is that near county road 714?
Great video thanks. I wonder if it would use less energy to make a complete 360 rotation instead of 180 and then swing back in opposite direction. Dump bucket while moving too.
Sounds like a good way to get dizzy.
No or that would be the procedure..
How many yard bucket is that one?
I know that bucket is big but it looks like it could handle one double that size. At least from this perspective.
How much is this machine? I want to buy one for my little son to play with^_^
great music whos the artist a song title great vid nice clean majestic
Impressive dragline! Unusual haul truck, is it a Caterpillar product?
I believe so, the ones we had near rockdale were.
Looks like a 775/777 bare chassis with a bottom dump trailer attached
Man i just came across this not meaning to. Thats the 3rd pit we dug with that machine. I was a ground tractor for her.
Why is the dragline in the middle of the trench ? Don't they normally start at one end and work their way to the other end, casting the overburden to the side ? This one seems to be in the middle and both ends of the trench have already been dug. He must have dug the trench then walked all the way back to the middle for some reason. Great video though and unlike most youtube vids, I love the music on this one, the action and music go very well together, thanks.
They're just digging down to the next layer of coal in the seam, I believe. I'm no expert, though
Easy to see why coal is on borrowed time . Hugely expensive to extract using huge amounts of energy just to dig it up . Having said that here I am watching a dragline. Great vid btw .
I'm talking about the 12:30 mark or thereabouts
Who is the music artist?
That is quite a seam.
My dad works at that coal mine
Any advantage over tracks?
Lower ground pressure, and I think simplified maintenance too
It was same machine from Meeker Colorado
Is this a new machine? It looks very clean, almost too clean.
It's not just clean, it's Clorox clean.
1972
I would love to learn how to operate this machine but how far is the shitter?😅😅😅
Lonely machine
that iron big enough to have lunchroom
Pingin nyoper q yok an bosku
8750 - nice
Why's this tune so sleepy?
Is this coal ?
Yes!
Приезжайте в РОССИЮ у нас еще больше и очень много и работают не в тепличных условиях ,а в районах Крайнего Севера до --55 градусов по Цельсию.
It seems like an awful lot of effort to uncover a coal seam that thin.
looks like slo-mo
Get in the seat, that operator is playing a piano in there!
Вот откуда берутся пустыни... Рядом лес редкий природа скоро и это раскопают и будет ещё одна пустыня. Что останется нашим детям, внукам?? Пустыни много пустыни оставим потомкам.... Миром правит бизнес, всё ради прибыли 💪😬
Πολύ βαρετή δουλειά
日本の財閥住友カラー。RED＆White
Use this song for the soundtrack
ua-cam.com/video/-kLog5cF76o/v-deo.html
So faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrr away?
I don't think it's a right machine.
Much less musak and much more close up please.
wow, how exciting. aerial views and crap music. would it not be better to explain, oh, i don't know, maybe the type of equipment, its history, the mine itself, on both sides of hwy 7, how long its been going on, the forecasted end date, the benefits having the mine in the community and how its helped them small podunk towns that are nothing more than a stop sign on the hwy?
Lignite is low grade coal. At least film a bituminous coal mine. It would be best if we saw a damn anthracite mine but will settle for bituminous coal.
It all shows how we are destroying the future for our kids grandchildren because we are GREED US humans.
Too much drone rubbish.
Chances of getting this job that pays around 60K/year..............................slim to none.
Chances of having a successful youtube channel about draglines that pays around 100K/year..............A lot better.
Cool video, keep up the good work.
**TRUMP~2020~!!!!!!!**
The moooosic is what trashes this video.
This actually might have been a good video if the music wasn't so annoying. Had to quit watching it.
The soundtrack is awful. Here's a crazy idea, how about we actually HEAR the machine!